CONCLUSION The workforce planning methods, techniques and best practices that I have shared in this guide is the combination of time-honored practices and strategies applied by both federal- and private-sector leaders along with my professional experiences that span over three decades. My passion for developing a streamlined workforce planning process for federal government use drove me to writing this book to fill a void that many workforce planning stakeholders have been seeking for quite some time. There are countless WFP methods, techniques and best practices that are available to private-sector organizations, but few targets addressing the federal workforce in a meaningful capacity. Often, many federal agencies workforce planning processes are conducted in a vacuum. Using the recommended processes in this guide, stakeholders’ interaction in collaborating and sharing information can lead to an end-to-end WFP process that can be replicated and 193